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IS WOMAN SUFFRAGE 
RIGHT? 

The Question Answered 


By 

ISAAC LOCKHART PEEBLES 

of the 

MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE 





1918 : 

TELL FARMER, PRINTER AND BINDER 
MERIDIAN, MISS. 





Copyright, 1917 
BY' 

Isaac Lockhart Peebles 


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PREFACE 


Woman Suffrage has become quite an 
engaging subject, but we are convinced 
that it is being discussed on the wrong 
bases, and therefore we have brought forth 
this production for the revelation of that 
fact, and too, with the hope of setting 
aright what is destined to be a great evil 
if not corrected. This is a restless, hurry¬ 
ing age, and hence quick choice of bases and 
hasty conclusions and rushing actions ob¬ 
tain; but despite it all we should hesitate 
sufficiently in order to weigh well the ques¬ 
tion of Woman Suffrage, for it involves all 
interests of our race. 

We hope and pray_that this work may 
prove to be a great help to, if not a perfect 
settlement of, this whole matter. 

Isaac Lockhart Peebles 
1522* 13th Avenue 
Meridian 
Miss. 


March, 1917. 




CONTENTS 


I. Page No. 

Origin of Woman Suffrage.. 7 

II. 

Bases Adopted for Woman Suffrage......... 8 

III. 

The Proper Basis for Discussing Woman 

Suffrage. 11 

IV. 

Unanswerable Objections to Woman 

Suffrage.....,. 14 










ISAAC LOCKHART PEEBLES 









IS WOMAN SUFFRAGE RIGHT? THE 
QUESTION ANSWERED 


I. 

Origin of Woman Suffrage 

The origin of the present movement for 
Woman Suffrage does not date back into 
the remote past, but near the middle of the 
nineteenth century. Mrs. John Stuart Mill 
wrote an article in the Westminster Re¬ 
view in 1851, criticising the Reform Act, 
or Bill passed by the English Parliament 
in 1832, which excluded women from vot¬ 
ing, although they had the required prop¬ 
erty qualifications necessary for suffrage. 
Justitia wrote a pamphlet on “The Right 
of Women to the Political Franchise” in 
1855. From that kind of a beginning, the 
agitation of Woman Suffrage has contin¬ 
ued in England. 

In 1820, Francis Wright, a Scottish re¬ 
former, came to America, and in 1828 em¬ 
phasized woman’s rights, aided by Ernes¬ 
tine L. Rose, a brilliant and beautiful Pol¬ 
ish woman, who was quite enthusiastic in 
that cause. Others enlisted, and hence the 
agitation culminated in a Woman’s Rights 
Convention at Seneca Falls, New York, on 
the 19th and 20th of July, 1848, in response 



8 


Is Woman Suffrage Right? 


to a call which was published in the Seneca 
County Courier, July 14th of the same year. 
In that convention, the religious, social and 
civil condition and rights of women were 
discussed and zeal for Woman’s Rights 
cause intensified. On the agitation has 
continued until the present, unabated. 

II. 

The Bases Adopted for Woman Suffrage 

1. The first to which we invite atten¬ 
tion is “ Taxation Without Representa¬ 
tion.” In adopting this basis, women over¬ 
looked the fact that their representation is 
in men, as it has always been when normal, 
and therefore, if there is a lacking in the 
same, the remedy is not to be sought in 
Woman Suffrage, but in the suffrage of 
men. All of the great reforms of recent 
years—especially that of prohibition—have 
not been accomplished by Woman Suffrage 
as such, but by the suffrage of men, who 
in their suffrage represented the women. 
Let no one forget that there are men who 
pay taxes that are not allowd to vote, and 
therefore the plea that “ taxation means a 
right to vote” does not hold good. It is de¬ 
clared that in some states women pay more 
taxes than men, but those who thus declare 
do not disclose the fact that men are paying 
their own taxes in their wives’ names, and 


The Question Answered 


9 


therefore the remedy in such cases is not 
to be sought by women in Woman Suf¬ 
frage, but in persuading their representa¬ 
tives to do business in a more manly way. 
If the husband is dishonest, let the good 
wife wield her mighty influence for his 
conversion to honesty, and not to seek a po¬ 
sition that will favor greater dishonesty on 
her part, and also the unbecoming thing of 
bossing and driving her husband. 

2. The second basis adopted for Wom¬ 
an Suffrage is “Equality of Women with 
Men.” In some respects men and women 
may be equal, but they are not in the ag¬ 
gregate, for the reason that men are males 
and women are females, and too, that men 
cannot be women and women cannot be 
men any more than a husband can become 
equal to his wife in carrying, bearing and 
nourishing helpless infants. Many a lov¬ 
ing, devoted husband would gladly suffer 
equally with his precious wife the gesta¬ 
tion, parturition and care for their sweet 
babies, but he cannot because he is a man— 
he is not a woman. On the other hand, 
there are self-sacrificing wives who would 
cheerfully relieve their husbands of those 
struggles and hardships of his life that re¬ 
quire masculine equipments to meet, but 
they cannot because they are women. They 
are not and cannot be men. 

Again, a man may be untrue to his wife 


10 


Is Woman Suffrage Right? 


and deal unlawfully with other women, but 
he cannot force on his wife illegal children 
for whom she has to care; but his wife may 
be untrue to him and exercise unlawfully 
with other men and bring forth children 
that are not his for him to support under 
the claim that they are his, and he cannot 
disprove it, although he may suspect that 
they arc not his children. Even when hus¬ 
band and wife are both true, they cannot be 
equal despite the most intense desires and 
the most persistent righteous efforts to 
that end, for while the husband is attend¬ 
ing to his farm, merchandise, practicing 
medicine or law, teaching school, voting, 
or preaching, his modest, decent wife can¬ 
not be seen in public, or she may be in bed 
with a darling, lawful newcomer to remain 
awhile, and therefore cannot equal her 
husband in business activities — cannot 
even go to the polls with her husband to 
vote, however anxious she may be to do 
so, although as healthy as he. Nature just 
simply and justly will not allow her to be 
equal to her husband. She may be more 
intelligent, better educated, better moral¬ 
ly, have more property, and yet nature will 
not allow her to vote, arrest a negro if she 
is sheriff, hold court if she is judge, nor 
to attend to state business, if governor. 
Other bases we could show that are false, 
but we deem it unnecessary. 


The Question Answered 


11 


III. 

The Proper Basis for Discussing of 
Woman Suffrage 

The basis for a wise and righteous dis¬ 
cussion of Woman Suffrage is not that of 
“taxation without representation,’’ “equal 
rights of women with those of men,” “wom¬ 
an’s equality with man,” “what women can 
do, have done, and are doing,” nor “what 
they prefer to do,” or “what men may think 
and prefer their doing.” No, not at all; but 
it is that of her relation to man, and man’s 
relation to her. In order, therefore, to a 
correct discussion of Woman’s Suffrage 
we should settle the question of woman’s 
relationship to man and man’s relation¬ 
ship to woman, and therefore let us per¬ 
form that task, remembering that God’s 
word is the only authority for its settle¬ 
ment. 

Matrimony illustrates this point most 
clearly, for when a couple marries, the wom¬ 
an’s name is lost in that of her husband, 
and therefore she is no longer known by 
her former name, which in reality was her 
father’s name. Her father was her repre¬ 
sentative prior to her marriage and since 
marriage her husband is her representa¬ 
tive. This fact finds proof in the follow¬ 
ing Scriptures: “If a woman also vow a 
vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a 


12 


Is Woman Suffrage Right? 


bond, being in her father’s house in her 
youth; And her father hear her vow, and 
her bond wherewith she hath bound her 
soul, and her father shall hold his peace at 
her: then all her vows shall stand, and ev¬ 
ery bond wherewith she hath bound her 
soul shall stand. But if her father disallow 
her in the day that he heareth; not any of 
her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she 
hath bound her soul, shall stand. And if 
she had at all an husband, when she vowed, 
or uttered aught out of her lips wherewith 
she bound her soul; And her husband heard 
it, and held his peace at her in the day that 
he heard it; then her vows shall stand, and 
her bonds wherewith she bound her soul 
shall stand. But if her husband disallow 
her on the day that he heard it; then he 
shall make her vow which she vowed, and 
that Avhich she uttered with her lips, where¬ 
with she bound her soul of none effect.” 
(Numbers 30:3-8.) If the father or hus¬ 
band consents to her vows, then he is re¬ 
sponsible for vows as the father for his 
daughter’s debts and the husband for his 
wife’s debts now. 

God’s word informs us that woman is 
subject to man and that man is woman’s 
ruler and head.* That woman’s relation to 
man is subjection is unmistakable from 
God’s own language to her after her most 

*See Supplement. 


The Question Answered 


13 


wilful sin against God. “Unto the woman 
he said: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow, 
and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt 
bring forth children; and thy desire shall 
be to thy husband, and he shall rule over 
thee.” (Genesis 3:16.) Paul wrote: “Wives 
submit yourselves unto your own hus¬ 
bands, as it is fit in the Lord.” (Col. 3:19.) 
The word “submit” is “sub” under and 
“mittere” to send, literally meaning to 
place or send under. God does not say one 
thing about husbands submitting to their 
wives, or to place themselves, or send them¬ 
selves under their wives, but plainly de¬ 
clares that his relation to his wife is that of 
headship. That fact is plainly declared 
when Paul wrote: “And the head of the 
woman is the man.” (I. Cor. 11-3); and 
again: “For the husband is the head of the 
wife even as Christ is the head of the 
Church.” (Eph. 5:23). He wrote also that 
“the head of every man is Christ.” (I. Cor. 
11:3). Now, the whole matter is before us, 
and it is this: that Christ is the head of ev¬ 
ery man and that the man is the head of 
the woman, and too, that women are sub¬ 
ject to Christ and to men, and men to 
Christ. With very little effort one can see 
that Christ could not be the head of men, if 
they were heads of Him, or even His equals, 
and therefore cannot anyone with a very 
small degree of knowledge and understand- 


Is Woman Suffrage Right? 


14 


ing see that man cannot be woman’s head 
if she is his head, or even his equal? God’s 
order would be wrecked, for His order is, 
Christ the head of man, and man the head 
of woman. Anyone should see, that unless 
specially limited, woman suffrage means a 
right to be elected, and a right to be elected 
means to be the head. In plainer words, if 
a woman is elected governor of a state, she 
becomes the head of all the men in that 
commonwealth, and if she is elected presi¬ 
dent of the United States, she becomes the 
head of all the men who are citizens of the 
United States and even head of her hus¬ 
band, and thereby changes God’s order 
completely which has fixed man for the 
headship of the woman, and an order too, 
that God alone can change rightly, and 
therefore since He has not changed it by 
placing woman in the headship, it should 
not be changed by men nor women. Let 
it not be changed for God’s sake. 

IV. 

Unanswerable Objections to Woman 
Suffrage 

1. The first objection to Woman Suf¬ 
frage is, that it will rob women of that pre¬ 
ferable lady-like modesty and delicacy that 
places them in a higher esteem with men 
than that that men have for men. Noth- 


The Question Answered 


15 


ing does a man appreciate more in woman¬ 
hood than a normal, delicate modesty, pe¬ 
culiar to women, whether he himself knows 
much or little, or is a Christian or a sinner; 
but when that has been displaced by the 
masculinities of men, then women will be¬ 
come repulsive and disgusting. When she 
assumes an air of don’t care and to dare, 
she forfeits the high regard true men have 
for normal womanhood. 

2. The second objection to Woman 
Suffrage is, that it hurts women and drives 
them to desperate acts. In England en¬ 
thusiasts for Woman Suffrage destroyed 
property irrespective of its value, and 
neither did they care for the discomfort 
and suffering it entailed. In this great 
country of ours, woman suffragists not 
only have said and done hard things, but 
they have done the very ungodly thing of 
mutilating the Bible and fixed up a Bible 
of their own, and titled it, “The Woman’s 
Bible,” (I have a copy of it on my table be¬ 
fore me), but how uncharitable it is in 
them to leave men with no Bible at all—it 
is “The Woman’s Bible!” Men have not 
been so unkind to women, for the men have 
always regarded the Bible as the Book of 
Cod for men and women, but look how wom¬ 
en suffragists have done: patched up a kind 
of Bible that suits them and left men with 
out a Bilile. Just look how they recently lost 


16 


Is Woman Suffrage Right? 


their lady-like modesty and dared to brow¬ 
beat the intelligent, courteous, honorable 
and good President Woodrow Wilson. To 
accomplish the end sought, they endured 
cold and rain, and even the smiles and cour¬ 
tesies of our great President. What a hard 
heart that refuses to respond to manly 
smiles and to the blandest courtesies! They 
neglect husbands, children, parents, home 
and squander money. 

3. The third objection against Woman 
Suffrage is, it will deprive women of that 
supreme protection by men that they have 
without suffrage. Men regard men gross¬ 
ly cowardly and unmanly when they wilful¬ 
ly fail to respond to woman’s needs and pro¬ 
tection, for true manhood esteems it hon¬ 
orable and chivalrous to do so. A manly 
man will not hesitate to shed his blood for 
a true woman. He will sacrifice for women 
in preference to men. Men have enacted 
laws partial to women; such as their hus¬ 
bands supporting them, and should they 
leave them without support and the moth¬ 
ers of their wives furnish them, they be¬ 
come liable to same for it. If a husband 
leaves his wife and dependent children, he 
is required to support them, but if his wife 
leaves him and helpless children, she is not 
responsible for any part of their support. 
Should a wife be divorced from her hus¬ 
band because he is an adulterer and he is 


The Question Answered 


17 


an active business man with no children, 
one-third of his estate may be granted her 
whether he likes it or not, as alimony, but 
if a husband divorces his wife because she is 
an adulteress, she does not become liable to 
him for anything, although she may be ever 
so rich and he miserably poor. Women are 
not required, and neither can they be com¬ 
pelled to work roads, to be grand jurors, to 
arrest criminals, to go to war, and yet men 
may be compelled to do all of these and 
others not mentioned. Many other advan¬ 
tages that women have over men by men 
that are not mentioned, but those mention¬ 
ed are sufficient for one to see that after 
all that has been said and written to the 
contrary, woman’s heritage is a goodly one, 
and therefore, can women afford to ruin it 
all? Surely not, and especially in the Solid 
South? Wives, mothers and daughters, 
please to allow me to persuade you to let 
well enough alone and do not lose what you 
already have that is dear. 

4. The fourth objection to Woman 
Suffrage is, that it means destruction of 
homes. The word home in the real sense 
that is now a synonym for heaven, will be¬ 
come a synonym for a veritable earthly 
hell, or no place at all. The wife, if found 
at home at all, will likely have some test¬ 
ing struggle she had, some insult offered 
her, some achievement she made, or some 


18 


is Woman Suffrage Right? 


defeat she met, to narrate, or inaugurate a 
sharp, exciting debate with her husband on 
some political issue, the progress or result 
of an election, etc., thereby affording him 
no mental rest nor spiritual comfort, nor 
taking any herself. Her excitement is 
great and intense. Her husband may not 
find her at home at all, because in her race 
for governor she defeated him, and hence 
may be out looking after the state farm 
for criminals, or some other interest of the 
state; or she may have defeated him for 
mayor of their city, and hence she is hold¬ 
ing a very important city council, consist¬ 
ing, perhaps, wholly of men, and will not 
likely reach home until midnight, if then; 
or she may have defeated her husband for 
sheriff, and is out spurring a horse, hurry¬ 
ing blood-hounds and brandishing a deadly 
weapon with murder rankling in her blood 
in pursuit of an escaping criminal; or she 
may be a judge and is off holding courts 
and will not return for several weeks; or 
she may be a turnkey and it is very neces¬ 
sary for her to remain in jail for the safe¬ 
keeping of some desperate white men and 
negroes who are not allowed bond, or who 
have been sentenced to the gallows, or life¬ 
time imprisonment, or both; or she may 
have been sent to jail or lifetime impris¬ 
onment, or sentenced to be hung by the 
neck till dead, because she shot to death 


The Question Answered 


19 


an opponent of Woman Suffrage in a de¬ 
bate over the same; or she may be in a 
very close race for re-election, and since 
some white and colored voters cannot be 
seen only at night, and therefore she must 
see as many as possible, even if it requires 
a late night hour, for her ambition for re- 
election impels her to a desperate effort 
to accomplish it, home or no home, hus¬ 
band or no husband, children or no chil¬ 
dren, for to her it is preferable. If wom¬ 
an suffrage obtains and the women live it 
as it now means, they will be in competi- 
torship with men of all grades and classes, 
and of course they will have very little 
time if any at all for a home, and if at home 
and the husband wishes to hold family 
prayer, she may inform him that she is as 
much the head of the family as he, and 
therefore if it is held at all she will hold 
it; or she may not believe in it at all, and 
hence assert her equal headship to see that 
it is not held, or her husband may not be¬ 
lieve in it and she does, and therefore feel¬ 
ing herself equal in every particular with 
him, she dares to hold it anyhow, even 
against his protests, and therefore, since 
there is no agreement, he asserts his part 
of the headship and a conflict follows, and 
therefore the point of difference will be 
settled in favor of the better man in the 
struggle. It may cost the life of one or 


20 


Is Woman Suffrage Right? 


both. Woman Suffrage makes a monstros¬ 
ity with two heads, and as a rule monstros¬ 
ities do not live long, and hence the home 
ceases. 

5. The fifth objection to Woman Suf¬ 
frage is, it disregards God’s order and ig¬ 
nores nature. Anyone can see at a glance 
that the wife of our President is not equal 
to him in the presidency of this great coun¬ 
try and cannot be, for she is not President 
although she may be as competent as he, 
and why is she not the President? Because 
the powers that elect presidents did not 
elect her and they do not want her to as¬ 
sume that she is and even try to rule her 
husband. This government can not and 
will not have two persons as rulers, for the 
reason that they may differ and tie up ev¬ 
erything or ruin everything, and so we 
have one head. That is God’s order, but 
Woman Suffrage wants two heads, and 
when we say two, we refer to the home to 
prove it. God’s order is one husband and 
one head,* as we have already noticed, or in 
other words, God has placed one ruler in 
the home for order’s sake and especially for 
His glory, and that ruler is the husband; 
but Woman Suffrage wants his wife to be 
as much ruler as he, if not the chief ruler, 
and therefore cannot any one see and 
know that they will differ, and hence if one, 

*See Supplement. 


The Question Answered 


21 


has as much right to rule as the other, the 
home will be ruined? The husband says: 
“Wife, please to take care of our babies to¬ 
day, for I shall have to look after some in¬ 
terests and will have to be gone all day.” 
But she, assuming that she is as much a 
ruler as he, if not the chief ruler, declares 
that he must stay at home himself for she 
must go and look after woman suffrage, 
business or no business, children or no chil¬ 
dren; or he may be solicited to run for an 
office and woman suffragists may solicit 
his wife to run, too, and of course she be¬ 
ing very bright and ambitious yields to 
their solicitations and so does her husband, 
and he so informs her, but to his surprise 
she informs him that she has been solicited 
also to run for the same office and that 
she has decided to make the run, and that 
he must stay at home and cook, nurse the 
baby and keep it and its clothes clean, and 
if the baby cries, stop it if he can, and if he 
cannot just let it cry, for it will not kill it; 
but the husband informs her that the office 
needs a man to fill it and he feels that his 
chances are good for an election, etc., but 
she informs him that she has as much right 
to be elected as he, and therefore he need 
not say anything more about it, for she has 
fully decided to run, and now what? If 
they stop to quarrel and fight to decide real 
headship their home is spoiled, and if they 


22 


Is Woman Suffrage Right? 


both enter the race their home is hurt, and 
if she is elected, the duties of the office may 
require all of her time, and hence her home 
is neglected and God’s order disregarded, 
and she assumes leadership. Let it be re¬ 
membered that God made man the head of 
the woman, not only in the home, but in the 
church and the state, and that His order 
should not be disregarded; and to disregard 
or try to change it, is an insult to Him. 
Woman Suffrage ignores nature that says 
to women, “Your very nature is against 
Woman Sufrage as it is now advocated for 
headship, or equality with man, but it 
favors men for leadership and headship.” 
They were made for either, but women 
were not; for one elected president of our 
great Nation, or governor of our great 
state, might be confined, or have an infant 
too young yet right on inauguration day, 
and therefore the news flashes all over the 
world that our president or governor is 
very healthy, but nature has rule now and 
says she cannot and she shall not be there. 
God made her so she cannot be there at 
that period. Her husband, father and 
brothers express great mortification, and 
her husband says: “Wife, had I been elect¬ 
ed, nature would have favored my being 
there, but you see now how it is with us.” 
Tf she has anv true convictions left, she will 
likely ask the pardon of her husband, 



Tite Question Answered 


23 


father and brothers, confessing at the same 
time that when soliciting votes of all kinds 
of voters, good, bad, white and black, that 
she did not feel right, neither did she feel 
comfortable through the whole campaign— 
she felt out of place; besides confesses that 
she was so impelled on by woman suffrage 
enthusiasm, that she grew unreasonable 
and nothing but a demonstration of the kind 
that she is now having would have ever en¬ 
abled her to see such a difference between 
men and women, and too, that they cannot 
be equal and cannot do equally, and now, 
husband, father and brothers, if God and 
you all will forgive me, from now on I will 
let you men who were made for leadership 
and headship have them and I shall help 
you all to be good and efficient‘ones. Hus¬ 
band, if you will forgive me, from now 
forth, I shall remain in our home and care 
for, instruct and train our sweet children 
the best I can; seeing that they attend Sun¬ 
day School and Church regularly as they 
are able, and help you all I can to be a good 
husband, father, church member and citi¬ 
zen, and should our country need you in any 
capacity, I shall do my very best to help 
you to meet fully every requirement. You 
can be the sheriff, governor, president, or 
fill any office for which you may be want¬ 
ed. You have borne so well with my im¬ 
modesties and discourtesies, my harsh 


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speech and rough conduct. My heart has 
been growing so hard that I cared less and 
less for God and men only as I could have 
my own way. I could hardly see any good 
in men or women only as they suited me 
on Woman Suffrage. 1 even had a growing- 
contempt for them when they did not do 
just to suit me. I even advocated boycot¬ 
ting those I could not convince and those 
who opposed Woman Suffrage. For all of 
this I heartily repent, praying to our Holy 
Father to forgive me, for He has been so 
good to us women. After all, you men have 
been good to us and allowed us to say, mis¬ 
represent and do many things we should 
have been ashamed of, but were so blinded 
and deafened by Woman Suffrage that we 
could not see or hear. I do not know what 
we women meant anyhow. We spent the 
hard-earned money you men made by trav¬ 
eling up and down the railroads, and that 
was not all; we talked uncharitably about 
you and abused you and created dissatis¬ 
faction among all the women we could. We 
made light of what God’s word says about 
women being in subjection to men and men 
being their headP We even called Paul an 
“old bachelor” through disrespect and 
went so far as that of mutilating the Bible 
and fixing up one that suits us. Some of 
us went far enough to say that God inspir¬ 
ed our women to do as they have done. Just 


The Question Answered 


25 


think how we have talked and done. It is so 
strange that we would assert, declare, talk 
and do as we have done. We have frowned, 
curled our lips, turned up our noses, prac¬ 
ticed discourtesies, indulged hatred, until 
we are growing flinty. I feel hard and I 
know that I look hard. Husband, will God 
and you men ever forgive us? If He and 
you will, I shall remain where God has 
placed me and by His grace do all that is 
possible for His glory. I can see now that 
God did not want women as heads in pro¬ 
phesies, nor in the college of apostles, nor 
among the seventy He sent out bv twos, nor 
the missionaries He sent abroad in Hew 
Testament davs, and now shall we women 
ruin it all ? If we had spent the money, 
time and energy that we have spent on 
Woman Suffrage for the needs of the poor, 
the relief of worn-out mothers, in making 
homes more comfortable, better and hap¬ 
pier in the salvation of lost souls, and in 
sending the Gospel to the heathens, just 
think of the good we might have done and 
how happy and contented we would have 
been! God help us to stay in our proper 
places and do His will until we are in 
heaven, not entertaining for one moment 
the least dissatisfaction with God’s order 
or plans. Let God’s order remain un¬ 
changed. Woman Suffrage is wrong. It is 
not right. 


SUPPLEMENT 

Headship is used in the sense of sub- 
headship when one is acting under the real 
or chief head. In other words, all the acts 
of heads of different matters and depart¬ 
ments are in recognition of the chief or 
true head when rightly directed. There 
must be one chief head according to God’s 
arrangement of families and other matters. 


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